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Youth employment prospects and aspirations
Young Indonesians display considerable resourcefulness in coping with difficult pathways into work, but more comprehensive policies are needed to improve their job prospects
Underemployed ambitions
Struggling in their transition from education to work, educated young people in rural Flores are often both dependent on and critical of local social support networks
Making their way
Indonesia needs to create better pathways from school to work
Would I like to be a farmer?
Rural youth in rice-growing villages explain their doubts and aspirations about a future in agriculture
Negotiating access
Entering a competitive work environment, young men in Cilegon find their ambitions for employment hampered
Aspiring to become a civil servant
Trying to secure a government job, educated youth in Pontianak are rethinking the meaning of work and middle class success
Boosting youth entrepreneurship in creative industries
Campaigns to promote creative industries promise new avenues of entrepreneurship for creative youth, but real career options remain uncertain
A woman’s place
Educated urban youth continue to express gendered work–family expectations
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